Captain Anthony Armistead

No records of a Mary, Ann, or John as children
Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestor #A208:

Armistead, Anthony - A208; born 1633, died 1705; Elizabeth City Co.:
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Sheriff of Elizabeth City in 1684, and Burgess (Sessions of September 24, 1696, November 2, 1720 and May 9, 1722) . and a member of the committee to report the revision of the laws which were approved by the General Assembly.
He was justice of the peace and captain of horse in 1680 and one of the committee in 1700 to report a revision of the laws which were approved by the General Assembly in 1705, and a
Capt. of James City County Militia in Virginia.
Member of Gov. William Berkeley's Court Martial in 1675 to try the Bacon Insurgents of Bacon's Rebellion.

He is listed in Register Of Qualifying Seventeenth Century Ancestors of "The Jamestown Society"  Ancestor #A208 , https://www.jamestowne.org/archer---awbrey.html

Captain Anthony Armistead

• Captain Anthony Armistead (1633-October 26, 1726) was a Justice of the Peace in Colonial Virginia, associated with the Bacon insurgent courts-martial in 1676. He was the son of William Armistead. He resided in Elizabeth City County, Virginia. He was part of Sir William Berkeley's courts-martial in 1676 to try the Bacon insurgents.
• He was a justice of the peace and a captain of horse in 1680. He was a burgess in 1693, 1696, 1699, and one of the committee in 1700 reporting a revision of the laws which were approved by the General Assembly in 1705.

Married

• Captain Armistead married Hannah Ellyson, daughter of Dr. Robert Ellyson, of James City County, Virginia.

Their children were:

• Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Armistead, member of the House of Burgesses, married Anne ? and Elizabeth Westwood
• Captain Robert Armistead,
• Major William Armistead who married Hannah Hines,
• Judith Armistead who married (1) John West III, on July 18, 1698, married (2) Butts
• Hannah Armistead married (1) William Shelton on 10 Dec 1698. No Issue. William Sheldon married (2) Katherine Nutting, daughter of Captain Thomas Nutting.
• possibly Dunn Armistead, d 1716

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Armistead

Sources

• Page 228 of William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 6 Armistead Family
• Virginia, Prominent Families, Vol. 1-4 Chapter I.
• Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: by Hardy, Stella Pickett.
• The Shelltons Lineal Descendants from Ancient, Medieval and Modern Kings and from Fifteen Sureties for the Magna Charta: by Kathryn Morris Brown
• Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volumes 1-2, By Louise Pecquet du Bellet, page 672 - https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wEL-bI-QNmYC&pg=PA676&lpg=PA676...
• The House of Burgesses, 1683 and 1684 - https://www.jstor.org/stable/4242528?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
• The South in the Building of the Nation: Biography A-J - https://books.google.com/books?id=yldO8BiL_2oC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=...
• ”The Armistead Family: 1635-1910.” By Virginia Armistead Garber. Page 230. GoogleBooks (3) Anthony3 Armistead married Hannah Ellison. Issue: (82) William4, (83) Anthony4, (84) Robert4, Robert A. married first, Miss Booth; second, Katherine Nutting. Issue by first marriage: (212) Elliason A., (213) Booth5 A. By second marriage: (214) Robert, (215) Booth, (216) Angelica5. (85) Judith4, (86) Hannah4.
• ”The Armistead Family: 1635-1910.” By Virginia Armistead Garber. Updated and corrected by Douglas E. Zimmerman, 2014 , https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~enchantedworld/genealogy/index.htm
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/1914603
• GEDCOM Note He is an ancestor of President John Tyler